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TIME AND PLACE REFERENCES OTHER CHANGES IN REPORTED SPEECH
If speech is reported some time after it was said, words In reported speech, pronouns may also need to be
used to talk about times and places may need to change. changed to ensure they refer to the correct person or thing.
The time reference is
“yesterday” in direct speech.
The time reference is
“the day before” in
reported speech. “These” is replaced by
the more distant “those.”
“This” is replaced by
the more distant “that.”
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